<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"><html><head><!--Copyright 1998-2000 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify itunder the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, aspublished by the Free Software Foundation. Sun designates thisparticular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as providedby Sun in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code.This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUTANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY orFITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public Licenseversion 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file thataccompanied this code).You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.Please contact Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle, Santa Clara,CA 95054 USA or visit www.sun.com if you need additional information orhave any questions.--></head><body bgcolor="white">Provides classes and interfaces that deal with editableand noneditable text components. Examples of text components are textfields and text areas, of which password fields and document editorsare special instantiations. Features that are supported by thispackage include selection/highlighting, editing, style,and key mapping.<p><strong>Note:</strong>Most of the Swing API is <em>not</em> thread safe.For details, see<ahref="http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/overview/threads.html"target="_top">Threads and Swing</a>,a section in<em><a href="http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/"target="_top">The Java Tutorial</a></em>.<h2>Related Documentation</h2>For overviews, tutorials, examples, guides, and tool documentation, please see:<ul> <li><a href="http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/text.html" target="_top">Using Text Components</a>, a section in <em>The Java Tutorial</em></ul>@since 1.2@serial exclude</body></html>